tateb24
Member
I have recently been attempting to cast some stainless steel blanks and rattlesnake blanks. Everything comes out really well, no bubbles or anything else until I go to square the ends of the stainless blanks, and it appears the very small wire kinda rips away at the end. It is not major chipping but enough to notice that it probably won't sell. The wire also comes out of the sides after I continued trimming what the barrel trimmer didn't cut. At one point the wire actually protruded from the pen and it was next to impossible to keep it from poking skin, which I would not even think of selling or using.
Do I need to cut the braid exactly to size and not use a barrel trimmer? Or do I need to resharpen my barrel trimmer and retry?
I noticed that applying a small layer of 5 min epoxy and stainless braid really with the air bubbles disappearing, but it seems as though after scraping the scales off of the rattlesnake skin, it looks ugly as hell and kinda doesn't even look like snake skin. Is there another way to turn or process to keep the original scales so that is at least resembles a snakeskin.
I am just a little frustrated this afternoon, I feel better whenever I make a pen at least once a day, and today was not one of those days. Any advice is appreciated.
Do I need to cut the braid exactly to size and not use a barrel trimmer? Or do I need to resharpen my barrel trimmer and retry?
I noticed that applying a small layer of 5 min epoxy and stainless braid really with the air bubbles disappearing, but it seems as though after scraping the scales off of the rattlesnake skin, it looks ugly as hell and kinda doesn't even look like snake skin. Is there another way to turn or process to keep the original scales so that is at least resembles a snakeskin.
I am just a little frustrated this afternoon, I feel better whenever I make a pen at least once a day, and today was not one of those days. Any advice is appreciated.
